Bottle cap



Patented Feb. 19, 1924.

BOTTLE CAP.

Application filed February 23, 1923.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE l?. Vtnreni., a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county ci' Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Caps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle caps, and has for its object to provide a combined bottle cap and stopper especially adapted and intended for temporary use on milkrbottles, to close the bottle after the ordinary paper cap or stopper is removed. The present device can be changed from one bottle to another so as to exclude dust and dirt from the bottle in use. It will preferably be made of glass so that it can easily be kept clean.

' The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. l is a section of the cap as applied to a bottle mouth. Fig. 2 is an inside plan of the cap.

In the drawings, an ordinary milk bottle is indicated at 6, having a shoulder at 7 which receives the usual paper stopper. Upon removal of the stopper, the present device is applied to the bottle. It comprises a cap havi ing on its under side an annular or circular stopper section 8, which may be made hollow as shown, for the sake of lightness, and this stopper extension is of proper size to lit within the mouth of the bottle, and on its outer side it is provided with a shoulder 9 extending around the same of proper size and in proper V ;osittion to seat against the shoulder 7 on the hottie when the cap is applied. The outer part or rim of the cap entends outwardly a suthcient distance to cover the top of the bottle neck, as shown at 10, and the extreme Serial No. 6%),75'6.

edge ts around or against the outer side of the lip oi the bottle, as shown at l1. Ur, stated in another way, the under side of the rim of the cap is grooved to receive the circular lip around the mouth of the bottle.

A cap as constructed will fit closely and snugly to the bottle mouth and will remain in place without slipping, during ordinary movement of the bottle. lit will exclude dirt from the bottle, and can be readily changed from one bottle to another as occasion may demand.

rlhe particular form of the cap may be changed to accommodate it to bottles of different standard types.

l claim:

A combined bottle cap and stopper, made of glass, and adapted for interchangeable use on milk bottles or the like, said cap having a smooth unbroken upper surface and having on its under side a downwardly extending central stopper section provided with a. shoulder to rest on a shoulder in the bottle neck, the rim of the cap projecting outwardly and being curved downwardly to iit against the outer side of the top ol the bottle neck, said rim terminating at substantially the line of greatest diameter of said top and spaced laterally therefrom, whereby said cap is capable of removal without distortion and is interchangeable from one bottle to another.

In testimony whereof, l afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE l). VlTllGlEL. llitnesses:

donn A.. Boi/rMirarn'r., Entrano J. Honoar. 

